Sultan offers a rather shallow comparison of the Saudi deposit regime with the other Gulf despotic regimes

"Perhaps one area where the smaller Gulf states can claim some advantage over Saudi Arabia is with regard to a more open nightlife. However, the size and diversity of the new opportunities that Saudi Arabia offers may very well start to eclipse the appeal to some of a more liberal nightlife that other Gulf states provide."  And he even adds: "Perhaps one area where the smaller Gulf states can claim some advantage over Saudi Arabia is with regard to a more open nightlife. However, the size and diversity of the new opportunities that Saudi Arabia offers may very well start to eclipse the appeal to some of a more liberal nightlife that other Gulf states provide." What kind of role?  Reading this one gets the impression that it was written by a staffer at the World Bank with little interest or concern for human rights and gender equality and also the lives of Arabs in Yemen, Palestine, and elsewhere.  There is. no mention of Saudi-Israeli alliance.  This is an article that the UAE censor can approve.